Standing Out In A Crowd

Album: Jasper County (2005)
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  • Mother said, "Stand up straight, don't let your classmates make
    You feel like you don't belong
    So not like the rest of them, someday, the best of them
    Will realize they were wrong"

    But in my world, different meant lonely
    The last place I wanted to be

    Was standing out in a crowd
    Where the spotlight finds you and singles you out
    What are they whisperin' about?
    You're thinkin' up ways to take up less space
    Can't see the grace in it, standin' out in a crowd
    (Standing out)

    Too short, too tall, flower against the wall
    The last one chosen to play
    Too smart, too dumb, too strange a place to be from
    Same shoes every day

    With all these ways to be different
    Then maybe that's how you fit in

    By standing out in the crowd
    Where the spotlight finds you and singles you out
    What are they whisperin' about?
    You're thinkin' up ways to take up less space
    Instead of embracing it, standin' out in a crowd
    (Standing out)

    It's funny how now
    It's not such a bad place to be
    Standing out in a crowd
    (Standing out in a crowd)
    Standing out in a crowd

    Standing out in a crowd
    (Standing out)
    Where the spotlight finds you and singles you out
    What are they whisperin' about?
    You're thinkin' up ways to take up less space
    There's no escapin' it, standin' out in a crowd
    (Standing out)

    Standin' out in a crowd
    (Standing out)
    (Standin' out)
    Writer/s: MAIA SARI SHARP, SARAH FRANCES MAJORS
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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